[Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter.] Other researchers have tried mixing bricks with biosolids and other waste products. Over the course of half a decade, he and a team of researchers collected biosolids from two wastewater treatment plants in Melbourne and mixed them with soil to make hybrid bricks of varying proportions. They fired them for 10 hours, at nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and cooled them, then compared them in tests to normal bricks.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2019 02:03 UTC